Data Science

About two months ago I joined Kaggle as product manager, and was immediately given a hard time by just about everyone because I hadn't ever made a real submission to a Kaggle competition. I had submitted benchmarks, sure, but I …

Want to stand out from the crowd and score that coveted interview with the Facebook data science team? Kaggle is excited to announce the Facebook Recruiting Competition, the debut challenge of our newest offering, Kaggle Recruit. Facebook is well known …

The EMC Data Science Global Hackathon prize was awarded to James Petterson. Check out his webpage for a more detailed description and the source code: http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~jpetterson/ What was your background prior to entering this challenge? I am currently finishing my …

Our new Kaggle developer, Adam Kennedy, introduces the new Kaggle Wiki: The Kaggle Public Wiki launches today in Beta. We have built it from the ground up to support the odd mix of science, math and code that makes our …

For those of you who didn't catch Jeremy's talk at the O'Reilly Strata Conference, it's up online. This talk outlines our vision for Kaggle and the future of data science, and why data scientists like 3-time KDD winner Claudia Perlich …

I recently gave a talk to the local R meetup group, in which I gave a brief overview of my “data scientist’s toolbox” (using a few Kaggle competitions as practical examples), and also provided an introduction to ensembles of decision …